(x/posted r/askreddit) Discovered an native plant in the yard that apparently was used for thousands of years as a starch source but requires a great deal of processing before it won't kill you. How did ancient peoples not give up after the first couple of goes that killed someone to come up with the solutions to make deadly foods edible through complex processing? Like polk salad which has to be boiled several times or this plant, the coontie, which has to be leeched and fermented to remove cyanide